Aresearch OnT Company’s Production Planning System Analysis And Improvement

With the progress of facade business, mass customized terracotta panel facade materials are widely applied on different buildings in all over the world. The manufacturer of such representative mass customized products has to adapt to the market change to make a good production plan for the customized demands. The research on this topic does have realistic meanings to the terracotta facade material manufacturers and also to the same kind of facade material manufacturers. This thesis has applied literature analysis, comparative analysis and empirical analysis. This thesis analyzed the problems within the Production Planning system of T Company in details, which includes the surfaces and the root reasons. The author also worked out the solutions for the mentioned problems. In the later operation, all orders or contracts for customized terracotta panels will be taken into the production planning system as a project. The tools for project management are adopted as important tools in the process of T Company’s production planning. The order-taken department will be the only project management department, and other departments will be the team members of the project management team matrix. All departments will follow the project plan which made by the project manager to finish the tasks, which will help to achieve the goal of highly efficient operation and the in time delivery. After the closing of the project, the project review will be executed with standard procedure. With this review, the valuable knowledge will be collected into the organization knowledge library which will help the operation and management for the future similar projects and products. After the short-term operation in T Company, the solutions were verified for the current stage of T Company with positive results. The conclusion of this thesis can be applied in the production planning of project-leaded terracotta panel manufacturer. The conclusion can also be applied for production planning of similar facade material manufacturer. In some cased, the conclusion can also be applied to the production planning if mass customized products manufacturer in other businesses. The topic of the research also belongs to a branch of project management in some way.